The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-12


Eretrospection and fancyupon his home
and dream Of a time when he shalt
come back to- ii. to impart to it the
memorial Of his distinction and deeds.
But, having played his part, posterI,
~ will no more guard his euviron-
n1ent than>it will presesya some thea-
tire on whose stage a great actor like
ShakeDeare-or Garrick played.
| have said that the same lesson ID
taught by the noted homes of foreign
iat1s. What preserves the dubious
relics of Shakespeare, at Stratford, is
thegcontinuous activity of Shake
speare's compositions, played in all
English-speaking lands and read as
trophies of style and of intellectual
perfection.
Some few personss comparatively.
1Re house of Walter Scott after
n ransacked the picturesque
eotland. Pilgrims 90 with
even more ardor to the cottage of
Burns, whose songs and satires have
come to generation which appreci-
ates them more than his own, because
of their democratic spirit and fidel.
ity.
A few years past L drove out from
Nottingham to Byron's once famous
property of Newstead Abbey, but |
Judged, by the travellers record on
the premises, that / was one of the
few who would take the pains to ex-
plore the spot on which the poet Law
ished so much Imagination and mel.
ancholy.
He evidently believed that it would
become shrine, for he had buried
his dog near at hand upon the lawn,
under monument imposing enough
to cover some American President.
A wealthy stranger, with the landed
passion of England, had bought the
old place and decorated and embel-
lished it; but l felt, after passing
through its halls and courts, that the
true place, after all, TO find Byron at
home was in his books, which one
can have on shipboard, or at lonely
mines and ranches, or in the crowded
loneliness of towns and cities.
Career is at the expense of locality,
and so it will ever be.
Those who worship personal shrines
are the Yirtuous and solvent descend
ants of men who never heard the
trump of fame, but their lives within
fixed precincts, and hedged their
competence about with private safe
guards, and bred in their posterity
the tender affections of private peace
L visited last autumn, the room
where Albert GalIatin died, in little
neglected suburb of the city of New
York. What was there to show me
the profound study of finance he gave
to the problems of revenue and tax
alton? Nothing; and still less in the
poor old bald and whitened head he
dragged TO his bed to pay the debt of
nature.
The life had gone out of him at the
public task followed in his dingy pub
lie offices, traced in worn books of
law and figures, ana pondered over
in premeditated walks, where he
saw the hCt nature that beckoned to
him in blossom and brook and flow
ing tides of rivers or Cf men.
AS the sea writes not the career of
ships, the earth holds not the giant
footprints of the men of long en-
deayor.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.
In China, dutiful son will see that
his parents are provided with nice,
comfortable cofiins, sometimes long
before they are needed, and we are
told that nothing so pleases elderly
people as to have an undertaken to
drop in to take their measure, know
ing that it is the affectionate thought.
fulness of their offspring that they
have to thank for it. And when the
coffins arrive, all nice and fresh with
new yarnish, they bring in the neigh
bors to examine and admire them.
They are then stood up against the
wall as ornaments, until needed.
Where there is a large family one
might easily mistake the d, ale
for an undertaker's shop. Custom
makes everything familiar.
When the Interstate Commerce
law goes into effect the following
will be entirely abolished by the rail-
roads: Theatrical rates, week end
tickets, shippers tickets, extra bag
gage allowance, round. trip tickets,
excursion rates to Kansas. California,
Florida, &C., trip passes, and in fact,
passes of all descriptions except those
for the use of employees. Now, don't
] all L. II